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| 1850 |
| | | British engineer Robert Stephenson completes a box-girder railway bridge over the Menai Strait, between Anglesey and mainland Wales | |
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| 1861 |
| | | An official National Eisteddfod is held for the first time in Wales, in Aberdare | |
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| 1874 |
| | | Major Walter Wingfield secures a patent for Sphairistike, a game he has developed at his home in Wales, from which lawn tennis evolves | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Keir Hardie is returned to parliament for Merthyr Tydfil, beginning a long and close link between the Labour party and Wales. | |
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| c. 1900 |
| | | The Welsh painter Augustus John becomes Britain's most famous bohemian | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Cardiff's new Civic Centre is launched with the completion of the City Hall and Law Courts, designed by Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The Welsh poet W.H. Davies has a success with The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, his account of life on the road and in dosshouses | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Plaid Cymru, the 'party of Wales', is founded in a temperance hotel in Pwllheli during the National Eisteddfod | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The fourth Hampton Court Bridge, designed by Edwin Lutyens, is opened by the Price of Wales, on 3 July 1933, who also opens Chiswick Bridge and Twickenham Bridge on the same day | |
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| 1941 December 10 |
| | | Japanese planes sink the British battleship Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse off the coast of Malaya | |
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